I have never understood (and continue to fail to understand)
why, when Don made it quite clear in Plain.TeX that "@" is a
vowel, Leslie and his followers insist on treating it as
a glottal stop. Why one earth did they use the horribly
ugly :
\@firstofone
instead of the far more intuitive and elegant :
\first at fone
** Phil.
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Uwe Lueck wrote:
> That is remarkable, Heiko (tested!).
> Is this your discovery, or have you seen it elsewhere?
> It could be a proposal for latex.ltx.
>> Likewise, the next line in latex.ltx,
>> \def\:{\@xifnch} \expandafter\def\: {\futurelet\@let at token\@ifnch}
>> could be replaced by
>> \@firstofone{\def\@xifnch} {\futurelet\@let at token\@ifnch}
>> (tested!).
Not sent from my i-Pad, i-Phone, Blackberry, Blueberry, or any
such similar poseurs' toy, none of which would I be seen dead
with even if they came free with every packet of cornflakes.